Month: November 2017

Every now and then, I need to parse through some log files where there are multiple files (like in a core dump or a whole logs directory) — figuratively looking for needle in a haystack.

My work has a Splunk license but I didn’t want to add the logs in and have them be a possible red herring for another if I left them in. So, I used Docker to host a Splunk instance on my Mac. Here’s the instructions on setting it up: